David Longstreth Quotes

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.

I listened to Kanye West and also dove deep into bands like Radiohead, Portishead, and Bon Iver.

That's one of my favorite Matador records: Cat Power, 'You Are Free.'

I'm into Incubus. Growing up, I was a huge Taking Back Sunday fan. I'm still a fan, but I don't listen as much as I used to. When I was 13 or 14, I started getting into emo-pop-rock, so that influenced me. I also love Drake... I have a pretty diverse collection.

I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock.

Sigur Ros make beautiful music. Bloc Party are fantastic and exciting and innovative.

I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

As I got older, I fell in love with Radiohead, and 'OK Computer' is one of my favorite albums of theirs. Sonically, the tone of the guitars on tracks like 'Electioneering' just rips right through me.

XTC is my favorite band; I'm a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for Cutie, also Ryan Adams. I try to impress my children: 'Have you listened to such-and-such?' They're not impressed.

I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

The grunge scene is not what I'm interested in.

I'm always into rock n' roll and indie rock.

I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.

I love Unknown Mortal Orchestra, who are from New Zealand, living in Portland.

I listen to everything: The Pixies, The Beatles, The Avett Brothers.

If you make rock music with guitars in it, the Radiohead comparison is inevitable.

Sonic Youth is one of my favorite bands.

Eric's Trip is still a huge influence on me. The style of those recordings and the rawness of them is very inspiring. And the density of the distorted parts, amazing.

Definitely one of the biggest influences on my music is the music that Ben Gibbard's associated with, so Death Cab and The Postal Service.

I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.

Of Montreal's early releases were loaded with playful but confessional acoustic tunes, but the band soon embraced glam-rock's freakier side on albums like 'Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?' and 'Skeletal Lamping.' It was a shift fans might not have tolerated if it weren't for frontman Kevin Barnes' catchy, personality-driven songs.

The Replacements don't sound like The Replacements half the time!

I like Beach House a lot.